Does date of application submission count?

Colleges & Universities A-Z Harvard University
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<p>Do they actually begin reading before November 1st-ish? I plan to submit my application later, but it seems so many people have submitted their applications already.</p>

<p>It shouldn't hurt if I submit closer to the deadline, right? As long as everything is postmarked/submitted online by November 1st, right?</p>

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<p>That is why they have a deadline.........to get the apps in and allow time for reading. Good Luck</p>

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<p>Yeah, they are going to be reading 4000 apps for EA, and 12000 apps for RD. Do you really think they check every envelope for the postmark date? YEAH RIGHT! Some teachers and GCs send in the letters of rec around that time, so there's more mail. As long as you don't send it like 2 weeks or 2 months after, you'll be fine. Probably like 1 or 2 days after the deadline.</p>

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<p>I know a student who worked in the admissions office, and she told me that they start reading aps as soon as they start trickling in. And it was her sense that the earlier ones received more time by the adcoms, before the onslought of aps that came at the deadline.</p>

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<p>There is another way to look at this: they are going to be reading 4000 apps for EA, and 12000 apps for RD. Don't you think that they really don't need any MORE apps to read? So they will probably be looking for ways to reduce the pile rather than expand it. An easy place to start whittling it down a bit would be to refuse to consider those that were submitted after the deadline.</p>

<p>Adcoms are only human. Looking at a stack of 20,000 apps waiting to be read would be enough to make most people burst out crying. Get yours in early.</p>

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<p>Get yours in early. My friends work in the admissions office and they said that completed applications were already started to be pulled out for a read. Coureur is right. Get a move on.</p>